PT Journal Collections – Women’s Health

The following is a list of 19 articles published in Physical Therapy Journal from 1988 to 2010 that are public access.  In fact all PTJ articles are public access one year after publication.  These are wonderful resources for learning and marketing.

Continence and Quality-of-Life Outcomes 6 Months Following an Intensive Pelvic-Floor Muscle Exercise Program for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: A Randomized Trial Comparing Low- and High-Frequency Maintenance Exercise

Diane F Borello-France, Patricia A Downey, Halina M Zyczynski, and Christine R Rause

Physical Therapy 2008 88:1545-1553; doi:10.2522/ptj.20070257

Use of Transabdominal Ultrasound Imaging in Retraining the Pelvic-Floor Muscles of a Woman Postpartum

Allison Ariail, Trace Sears, and Elizabeth Hampton

Physical Therapy 2008 88:1208-1217; doi:10.2522/ptj.20070330

Pelvic-Floor Strength in Women With Incontinence as Assessed by the Brink Scale

Mary P FitzGerald, Kathryn L Burgio, Diane F Borello-France, Shawn A Menefee, Joseph Schaffer, Stephen Kraus, Veronica T Mallett, Yan Xu, and for the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network

Physical Therapy 2007 87:1316-1324; doi:10.2522/ptj.20060073

Management of Dyspareunia and Associated Levator Ani Muscle Overactivity

Kimberly A Fisher

Physical Therapy 2007 87:935-941; doi:10.2522/ptj.20060168

Pelvic-Floor Muscle Function in Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse

Diane F Borello-France, Victoria L Handa, Morton B Brown, Patricia Goode, Karl Kreder, Laura L Scheufele, Anne M Weber, and for the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network

Physical Therapy 2007 87:399-407; doi:10.2522/ptj.20060160

Management of Stress Urinary Incontinence With Surface Electromyography–Assisted Biofeedback in Women of Reproductive Age

Mariana T Rett, Jose A Simoes, Viviane Herrmann, Cristina LB Pinto, Andrea A arques,

and Sirlei S Morais

Physical Therapy 2007 87:136-142; doi:10.2522/ptj.20050318

Effect of Pelvic-Floor Muscle Exercise Position on Continence and Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Women With Stress Urinary Incontinence

Diane F Borello-France, Halina M Zyczynski, Patricia A Downey, Christine R Rause, and Joseph A Wister

Physical Therapy 2006 86:974-986;

Evaluation of Female Pelvic-Floor Muscle Function and Strength

Kari Bø, and Margaret Sherburn

Physical Therapy 2005 85:269-282;

What is the evidence regarding specific methods of pelvic floor exercise for a patient with urinary stress incontinence and mild anterior vaginal wall prolapse?

Kimberly Fisher, and Lisa Riolo

Physical Therapy 2004 84:744-753;

The Effects of a Progressive Exercise Program With Surface Electromyographic Biofeedback on an Adult With Fecal Incontinence

Stephanie Weiss Coffey, Elaine Wilder, Michael J Majsak, Renee Stolove, and Lori Quinn

Physical Therapy 2002 82:798-811;

Pelvic-Floor Rehabilitation, Part 1: Comparison of Two Surface Electrode Placements During Stimulation of the Pelvic-Floor Musculature in Women Who Are Continent Using Bipolar Interferential Currents

Chantale Dumoulin, Derek E Seaborne, Cécile Quirion-DeGirardi, and S John Sullivan

Physical Therapy 1995 75:1067-1074;

Pelvic-Floor Rehabilitation, Part 2: Pelvic-Floor Reeducation With Interferential Currents and Exercise in the Treatment of Genuine Stress Incontinence in Postpartum Women—A Cohort Study

Chantale Dumoulin, Derek E Seaborne, Cécile Quirion-DeGirardi, and S John Sullivan

Physical Therapy 1995 75:1075-1081;

Management of Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease with Shortwave Diathermy: A Case Report

Joseph A Balogun, and Friday E Okonofua

Physical Therapy 1988 68:1541-1545;

Pelvic-Floor Musculature Exercises in Treatment of Anatomical Urinary Stress Incontinence

Deborah C H Tchou, Cara Adams, R Edward Varner, and Betty Denton

Physical Therapy 1988 68:652-655;

Electromyographic and Dynamometric Characteristics of Female Pelvic-Floor Musculature

A Joseph Santiesteban

Physical Therapy 1988 68:344-350;

Commentary

Rhonda K Kotarinos

Physical Therapy 1988 68:350;

Author's Response

A Joseph Santiesteban

Physical Therapy 1988 68:351;

Differential Diagnosis of Endometriosis in a Young Adult Woman With Nonspecific Low Back Pain

Mark R Troyer

Physical Therapy 2007 87:801-810; doi:10.2522/ptj.20060141

Microwave Diathermy Treatment for Primary Dysmenorrhea

April R Vance, Sherrill H Hayes, and Neil I Spielholz

Physical Therapy 1996 76:1003-1008;

TENS Study Concerns

Michael F Nolan, Deborah Lewers, Jo Ann Clelland, James R Jackson, R Edward Varner,

and Joan Bergman

Physical Therapy 1989 69:621-623;

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation in the Relief of Primary Dysmenorrhea

Deborah Lewers, Jo Ann Clelland, James R Jackson, R Edward Varner, and Joan Bergman

Physical Therapy 1989 69:3-9;